Structural epicardial disease and microvascular function are determinants of an abnormal longitudinal myocardial blood flow difference in cardiovascular risk individuals as determined with PET/CT

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1023-1033

  Valenta, Ines ^a   Quercioli, Alessandra ^a   Vincenti, Gabriella ^a   Nkoulou, René ^a   Dewarrat, Stephan ^a   Rager, Olivier ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a   Seimbille, Yann ^a   MacH, Francois ^a   Ratib, Osman ^a   Schindler, Thomas H ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary circulation; Endothelial function; Myocardial blood flow; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78651266821     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-010-9272-9     Document Type: Article

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